WGDB: Wood Gene Database with search interface |
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Authors: | Neha Goyal HS Ginwal |
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Institution: | Division of Genetics and Tree Propagation, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, U.K, INDIA |
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Abstract: | Wood quality can be defined in terms of particular end use with the involvement of several traits. Over the last fifteen years
researchers have assessed the wood quality traits in forest trees. The wood quality was categorized as: cell wall biochemical traits,
fibre properties include the microfibril angle, density and stiffness in loblolly pine 1]. The user friendly and an open-access
database has been developed named Wood Gene Database (WGDB) for describing the wood genes along the information of
protein and published research articles. It contains 720 wood genes from species namely Pinus, Deodar, fast growing trees namely
Poplar, Eucalyptus. WGDB designed to encompass the majority of publicly accessible genes codes for cellulose, hemicellulose and
lignin in tree species which are responsive to wood formation and quality. It is an interactive platform for collecting, managing and
searching the specific wood genes; it also enables the data mining relate to the genomic information specifically in Arabidopsis
thaliana, Populus trichocarpa, Eucalyptus grandis, Pinus taeda, Pinus radiata, Cedrus deodara, Cedrus atlantica. For user convenience, this
database is cross linked with public databases namely NCBI, EMBL & Dendrome with the search engine Google for making it more
informative and provides bioinformatics tools named BLAST,COBALT.AvailabilityThe database is freely available on www.wgdb.in |
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Keywords: | Wood Cellulose Pinus Cedrus Poplar Eucalyptus |
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